Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:06:10 -0700 From: jeffw@mxim.com (Jeff Williams) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Partitioning for mulitple OS using FreeBSD 3.2 Partitioning tool. Message-ID: <199907262006.NAA01927@piolet.mxim.com>
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Um, I have a controller and hard drive such that: it can't run in LBA mode under DOS because of some incompatibility between the controller (promise technology eide2300+ on a VLB motherboard. It's a seagate 8420A 8.4 Gig hard drive. I want to run '95, FreeBSD, and Linux (Linux eventually, but for now I want '95 and FreeBSD up and running). Since I'm limited to 504 MB , and learned that I must put the FreeBSD kernel in the that first block., which I did successfully, I wanted to create just one more itty bitty partitiion for DOS, which I did using the FreeBSD partitioning utility. However, once I created a new, extended partition for DOS, the DOS version of fdisk stopped working. From the hard drive it had a "disk hardware error" or something like that. From a floppy, it merely branched, then hung. So, the million dollar question is: If I want two partitions for DOS (one primary, one secondary, and have to limit my primary (and secondary? That's not clear yet) partition to 504 MB (which is o.k. in my case), and want a freebsd partion and a linux one, what's the best way to proceed? Which partitioning tool do I use? WHich must I use? Where is the doggone table showing the codes for the partition types? (I used the old random keystroke method and found that way that the number for an extended Dos partition is 5. !!!$$*$*$). Thanks for your time, to whom it may concern. Jeff Williams jeffw@mxim.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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